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Double jersey joy the target for Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins

Owen Slot

January 5 2012, 12:01am, The Times

We don’t like to over-promise and under-deliver, that’s not what we do. We’d rather keep our feet on the ground and over-deliver.” These were the words yesterday of Dave Brailsford, the principal of Team Sky, who then discussed their plans to target not only a Tour de France green jersey for Mark Cavendish this summer, but a yellow jersey for Bradley Wiggins, too. We wish Brailsford well in over-delivering on that.

However, when the biggest names in the team — Brailsford, Cavendish and Wiggins — addressed the media yesterday, they chorused their confidence in being able to achieve what many have doubted since Cavendish joined the team: a two-pronged attack on the Tour.

Not since 1996 has a professional cycling team successfully hauled in both…